Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 21 MAY 2003

13:30 C1.001 Coherent-State Manipulation and Readout of a Large-Area Josephson-Junction Qubit

John Martinis (NIST, Boulder CO)

14:00 C1.002 Towards quantum control of light in atomic ensembles

Mikhail Lukin (Physics Department, Harvard University)

14:30 C1.003 Transfer of Quantum States of Light to Solid-State Devices

Dirk Bouwmeester (Department of Physics Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation)

15:00 C1.004 Coherent coupling and modified spontaneous emission of a single ion in a high finesse optical cavity

Christoph Becher

13:30 C2.001 Three-Dimensional Imaging of Atomic Break-Up processes

Michael Schulz (University of Missouri-Rolla)

14:00 C2.002 Electron Correlation in the Formation of Hollow Li-like Ions

A.S. Alnaser (Physics Department-Kansas State University)

14:30 C2.003 Coupled, time-dependent treatment of the electron transfer and ionization dynamics in field-free and laser-assisted ion-atom collisions

Tom Kirchner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany)

15:00 C2.004 Molecular dissociation imaging of slow hydrogen molecular ions

Itzik Ben-Itzhak (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Physics Department, Kansas State University)

13:30 C3.001 Thermal Electron Attachment to Ozone, 296-550 K

Thomas M. Miller, Jane M. Van Doren, Skip Williams, A. A. Viggiano (Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate)

13:42 C3.002 Dissociative Recombination of the Helium Molecular Ion

Kenneth Hardy, Xuewen Wang (Florida International University)

13:54 C3.003 Dissociative recombination of hydrocarbon ions

Anneli Ehlerding, Shirzad Kalhori, Fredrik Hellberg, Richard Thomas, Wolf Geppert, Mats Larsson (Molecular Physics, Alba Nova, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden), Albert A. Viggiano, Susan Arnold (Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicle Directorate, 29 Randolph Rd, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731, USA), Jacek Semaniak, Oldrich Novotny (Swietokrzyska Akademy, 25 406 Kielce, Poland)

14:06 C3.004 Attachment and vibrational excitation in low-energy electron collisions with chlorine molecules

Ilya Fabrikant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Stefano Barsotti, Martin Ruf, Hartmut Hotop (University of Kaiserslautern)

14:18 C3.005 Low Pressure Impact Excitation Functions of the Krypton 4p^5~5p Manifold

T. J. Gay, B. G. Birdsey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska)

14:30 C3.006 Pressure-Dependent Excitation Functions for Argon Ions Produced by Electron-Argon Collisions

H. M. Al-Khateeb (Department of Physics, Jordan University of Science and Technology), B. G. Birdsey, T. J. Gay (Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska)

14:42 C3.007 Electron-impact ionization of all ionization stages of Beryllium

James Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, S. D. Loch (Auburn University)

14:54 C3.008 Electron-impact collisions with both ground and excited state Li atoms

Michael Witthoeft, James Colgan, M. S. Pindzola (Auburn University)

15:06 C3.009 Ab Initio Model for Vibrational Excitation of Polar Molecules by Low-Energy Electrons

W.I. Vanroose, T.N. Rescigno, C.W. McCurdy (LBNL)

15:18 C3.010 Collisional Excitation and De-Excitation of N2 and N2+ in High-Pressure Discharge Plasmas

P. Kurunczi, N. Abramzon, M. Figus, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)

15:30 C3.011 Representation of the Translation Operator in a Soft-Slater Basis: Application to the Translation of Coulomb Sturmians

Charles Weatherford, Eddie Red, III Wynn (Florida A&M University)

15:42 C3.012 Some General Features of Free-Free Transitions Associated with Analyticity of the Schroedinger Equation.

D. B. Uskov, R. H. Pratt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.)

15:54 C3.013 A Convenient Formalism for Auger and Autoionization of Overlapping Resonances

M. M. Tabanli (University of Texas-Pan American), J. L. Peacher, D. H. Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)

13:30 C4.001 Collision Properties of Alkali Mixtures and Na-Rb BEC

S. B. Weiss, M. Bhattacharya, N. P. Bigelow (University of Rochester)

13:42 C4.002 Formation of ultra cold KRb molecules

Svetlana Kotochigova, Paul Julienne, Eite Tiesinga (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:54 C4.003 Evaporative cooling of atomic molybdenum

Cindy I. Hancox, Robert deCarvalho, Hummon Matthew, Scott Nguyen, John M. Doyle (Harvard University)

14:06 C4.004 Enhanced inelastic scattering rates of cold atomic chromium

Robert deCarvalho, Cindy I. Hancox, John M. Doyle (Harvard University)

14:18 C4.005 Ultracold Collisions of Separated Trapped Neutral Atoms

Rene Stock, Ivan Deutsch (Department of Physics, University of New Mexico), Eric L. Bolda, Paul S. Julienne (Atomic Physics Division, NIST)

14:30 C4.006 Multichannel quantum-defect theory for slow atomic collisions

Bo Gao (University of Toledo), Fred Mies, Eite Tiesinga, Paul Julienne (NIST)

14:42 C4.007 Tensorial analysis of the long-range interaction between metastable alkaline-earth atoms

Robin Santra, Chris H. Greene (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

14:54 C4.008 Theoretical study of elastic and inelastic rates of collisions between cold metastable ^3P_2 strontium atoms

Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Robin Santra, Chris Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado), Atomic Team

15:06 C4.009 Angular Dependence of the Dipole-Dipole Interaction in a Magneto-Optical Trap

Thomas Carroll, M. J. Lim, Anne Goodsell, Katharine Claringbould, Michael W. Noel (Bryn Mawr College)

15:18 C4.010 Isotope Branching in Chemical Reactions at Ultracold Temperatures

Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154)

15:30 C4.011 Ultracold atom-atom collisions in a nonresonant laser field

Vladimir S. Melezhik (CSULB CA and JINR Dubna Russia), Chi-Yu Hu (CSULB CA)

13:30 C5.001 Observation of hydrodynamic expansion in a strongly-interacting Fermi gas: Signature of superfluidity?

K. M. O'Hara (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg), S.L. Hemmer (Physics Department, Duke University), M.E. Gehm (Phyiscs Department, Duke University), J.E. Thomas (Physics Department)

13:42 C5.002 A strongly interacting, quantum degenerate Fermi gas of atoms

C. A. Regal, D.S. Jin (JILA: NIST and the University of Colorado)

13:54 C5.003 Resonance superfluidity in an inhomogeneous atomic Fermi gas

Jochen Wachter (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA), Chiara Menotti (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and BEC-INFM, I-38050 Povo, Italy), Murray Holland (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA), Marilu Chiofalo (Università di Pisa, I-56126 Pisa, Italy)

14:06 C5.004 Large Numbers of Degenerate Fermionic Atoms

Claudiu Stan, Zoran Hadzibabic, Subhadeep Gupta, Christian Schunck, Martin Zwierlein, Kai Dieckmann, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

14:18 C5.005 Interactions between Degenerate Fermionic gases near a Feshbach Resonance

Martin Zwierlein, Subhadeep Gupta, Zoran Hadzibabic, Claudiu Stan, Kai Dieckmann, Christian Schunck, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

14:30 C5.006 Competing Orders: Superfluidity and Spin Coherence in a Dilute Fermi Gas

Jamie E Williams, Nicolai N Nygaard, Charles W Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

14:42 C5.007 Tunable Interactions in Fermionic ^6Li

G.B. Partridge, K.E. Strecker, Y.C. Chen, R.G. Hulet (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX, 77251)

14:54 C5.008 Ultra-cold dilute gas Bose-Fermi mixture with ^87Rb and ^40K

J. Goldwin, M. L. Olsen, S. Inouye, D. S. Jin (JILA, NIST, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado -- Boulder)

15:06 C5.009 Progress Towards Sympathetic Cooling of ^84Rb with ^87Rb BEC

Xinxin Zhao, Jinwei Wu, Marc Hausmann (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Roberto Onofrio (Los Alamos National Laboratory and Department of Physics "G. Galilei', University of Padova), Eric Burt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), David Vieira (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:18 C5.010 Stability of a strongly-attractive, two-component Fermi gas

M. E. Gehm (Physics Department, Duke University), K.M O'Hara (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg), S.L. Hemmer, J.E. Thomas (Physics Department, Duke University)

15:30 C5.011 Measuring universal mean-field interactions in a strongly-interacting Fermi gas

S. L. Hemmer (Physics Department, Duke University), K. M. O'Hara (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg), M. E. Gehm, J. E. Thomas (Physics Department, Duke University)